Monday's Minneapolis forecast: chance of unrest

This past Monday, a friend of a friend (who is well connected to law enforcement agencies in Minnesota) sent me a copy of a text message he received. 

Heads up, MN Dept of Public Safety (DPS) has put out an alert to all MN law enforcement agencies that Derek Chauvin will likely get a commuted sentence or partial pardon on May 19th. I've no(w) confirmed this with 4 separate agencies, so I'm confident they got the notice.  Don't know if the pardon is real, I assume it is.

I hesitated to share this on the blog earlier simply because I had heard nothing from any local news outlets. Certainly someone within Twin Cities media would have heard from a source regarding this, right?

Then on Wednesday, a story relating to this very saga came out in the Minnesota Star Tribune. 

State political and law enforcement leaders are preparing for the possibility that President Donald Trump could pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s federal conviction in connection with the murder of George Floyd.

Responding to questions from reporters this week, Gov. Tim Walz said the White House has given him no indication that a federal pardon for Chauvin is imminent. Nonetheless, he’s bracing for the possibility, reminding people that even if Chauvin’s sentence is commuted on the federal level, he would be transferred to Minnesota to serve out the remainder of his lengthy state prison term.

So if that's the case, why would there be concern that unrest will happen if indeed a Chauvin pardon occurs? Given his State and Federal sentences run concurrently, Chauvin would be released from prison at the end of 2035 if indeed Trump pardons him. But that would only be two years sooner than if his Federal sentence remains intact. Are people really going to (again) burn down the city of Minneapolis over a lengthy sentence essentially being cut short by a measly two years?

Then again, that's implying that people destroyed the city five years ago due to legitimate feelings of aggrievement as opposed to, say, using it as an excuse for general thuggery. 

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